After being "confirmed" by Taro Haneda and his sense of identity as a fellow Osaka person, Nishimura Mirai soon signed a three-month short-term "dispatch employee" contract with Kotaro Koizumi in the name of "RB Hitachi Metals Co., Ltd. in the Hakumo-Obo Mining Area Office"!

"The monthly salary is 50,000 yen, and the bonus will be calculated separately according to your performance and how many valid contracts you can sign." Nishimura Mirai patted Zhong Bai on the shoulder with a smile and said, "This is for the sake of being a fellow Osaka person, I specially won it for you, don't forget, it is impossible for dispatched employees to have bonuses." ”

"Aligado a Himas! (Thank you very much!) Of course, Zhong Bai didn't fancy these rewards, but he still gave Nishimura a 90-degree standard bow in full of scenes.

Now, even if you succeed in penetrating the enemy as a "military engineering team behind enemy lines".

Zhong Bai was assigned to a small cubicle in the large office outside, which was originally used for the other party's office chores, but with the entry of "Koizumi Kotaro", it was quickly sorted out by efficient RB employees that a space, with two partitions and a small solid wood desk, became Zhong Bai's office space.

Hitachi Metals is very rich, and it can be seen from the monthly salary of 50,000 yen, although it is only less than half of the salary of a regular member, even in 2020, from the exchange rate at that time, this is equivalent to more than 3,300 yuan!

3300 yuan a month, RB temporary workers in the early 80s had such a high salary?

That's right, it's so good!

Moreover, this is still the period before the bursting of the RB economic bubble, and it has not yet reached its peak.

You know, it wasn't until 1985 that RB and MD signed the famous Plaza Agreement, that RB products began to pour into MD in large numbers and became the world's largest creditor country, and at that time, RB's national GDP was almost equivalent to nearly 70% of the world's first MD's national GDP!

At that time in Tokyo, what should an ordinary university graduate do if he didn't want to work and wanted money?

Get up in the morning, put on a suit, tie, go around the clubs, and get the transportation fee!

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In the small and medium-sized clubs, whoever points to it is who, OK, go to work.

What if an ordinary middle-class family thinks Tokyo is too noisy and wants to go to a secluded place? There is no need to plan, no need to plan, no need to plan, anyway, the purchasing power of the yen will explode when it goes abroad.

If it weren't for this background, Zhong Bai would not have been able to successfully apply for a job as a dispatched employee of RB Hitachi Metals Co., Ltd. in the Baiyun Obo Mining Area Office in just one hour.

Of course, all this is based on the high profits that RB has made by frantically expanding its foreign economy, plundering the resources of developing countries through capital, and selling them into high-tech products.

Rare earth concentrate is also an important part, otherwise, do you think that they RB people are full of food and spend so much money and hire so many people to go to this Baiyun Obo mining area that "birds don't" in the eyes of RB people to do business?

It took Zhong Bai ten minutes to figure out the staffing of Hitachi Metals' office.

In addition to the section manager, Mirai Nishimura, there are a total of 6 full-time employees.

Among them, 4 are buyers and salesmen who undertake the same business as Zhong Bai, 1 is a translator and clerical staff, and the other 1 is a financial and logistics staff.

It's just a team of 6 people, but since the beginning of the office, they have signed many contracts and exported millions of dollars worth of rare earth concentrates in this small office!

By looking through some existing information, the more Zhong Bai looked, the more shocking he felt!

The approach of these RB people is even more excessive than they imagined before they came!

In the eyes of RB people, the cost of rare earth chloride concentrate imported from the Baiyun Obo mining area is very low, and in the past 1982, the average export price was only 2,000 US dollars per ton, which is only equivalent to 2 US dollars per kilogram!

Zhong Bai clearly remembers that this year, RB imported rare earth chloride concentrate from MD with an average of 7.9 US dollars per kilogram!

This difference of 4 times the price, resulting in a large number of rare earth resources in China like Chinese cabbage flow to the international market, RB people are cheap, but there is another side effect, that is, the rare earth concentrate production enterprises in other countries around the world are basically in a state of loss, and many of them can not afford the daily operating costs, and eventually go bankrupt!

Even MD's famous Cavas Rare Earth Company and Molybdenum Sky Company, two major rare earth concentrate production enterprises, as listed companies, have to fall into the quagmire of stock suspension and waiting for mergers and acquisitions.

These changes are due to the soaring export volume of rare earth concentrate in China, and the Baiyun Obo mining area, which concentrates more than 83% of the country's rare earth concentrate production, is the main reason!

You can say that it is a natural thing to export materials to earn foreign exchange for the country in this era, but from another point of view, if China, especially the Baiyun Obo mining area, can control or even reduce the export volume of rare earth concentrate, will it change the pattern of the world's rare earth industry in the 80s from the perspective of basic resource allocation?

Of course!

However, this will also seriously hinder the development of the local economy, because the rare earth industry is the lifeblood of the economic development of the Baiyun Obo mining area, and the state will also reduce a lot of foreign exchange earnings.

However, the loss of these temporary benefits, if you look at it in the dimension of thirty or forty years later, it is a kind of stop loss, or even a gain!

Zhong Bai now has only one thought, that is, to find out as much as possible what the total amount of rare earth concentrate that several major RB rare earth companies are preparing to import this time, and must find a way to prevent them from succeeding!

Even if this amount cannot be reduced to 0, it is necessary to achieve a goal, that is: while reducing the export volume as much as possible, try not to export rare earth concentrates containing neodymium oxide and neodymium chloride!

There are more than 20 kinds of rare earth elements, even if you RB people have the money and means to import them, as long as the number of rare earth concentrates containing neodymium is not large, it means that the metal neodymium they can obtain is limited.

Without enough neodymium metal, Sumitomo Special Metals Co., Ltd., which is still in the laboratory research and development stage, will not be able to successfully develop the powder metallurgy method (POWDE).

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ocess), which means that they cannot successfully industrialize the manufacture of NdFeB permanent magnets in batches, which can give the team composed of Zhong Bai and Xu Guangxian enough time to master these industrial manufacturing methods first, so as to register patents in advance, so that Xiao RB can no longer make huge profits through patents in the next 30 years!

This process, say urgent urgent, say not urgent and not urgent, because they are two-way, one after another, as long as you suppress the other party, it is equivalent to buying yourself time, at least you will not be left far behind!